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Sarah Scott, who published during the second half of the eighteenth century, wrote for money and never signed her name to her work. She is known as a novelist; but as a historian and translator she also deserves the appellation of woman of letters, and as one who chose to pursue an alternative, carefully-thought-out, woman-centred … Read more

Patricia Highsmith, writing from the mid twentieth century, first in the USA and then in Europe and England, produced short stories and novels, the majority of them variously classifiable as thrillers or ‘suspense fiction’, a label which she disliked. Readers, however, have seen her that way. In 1988 most of her books were available in … Read more

Christine Brooke-Rose‘s literary output includes criticism, literary theory, novels, a collection of short stories, poetry, and an autobiography. She is an influential twentieth-century critic and theorist, and her fiction has been continually innovative, pushing the limits of narration and representation. It can be grouped into three periods: the early satiric novels, the discourse novels, and … Read more

For general information about the study, click here. What follows is more detailed information for those interested in participating. Purpose of the Study You are invited to participate in a research project being conducted at the University of Alberta and the University of Guelph. This project is intended to gain insight into interfaces for the … Read more

Sybille Bedford was a largely twentieth-century writer who worked on the boundaries between fiction and fact. Her three initial novels (which create fictional characters partly from people in Bedford’s own family or circle, and which evoke with particular historical vividness the political atmosphere of the times, recent but not contemporary, in which they are set) … Read more

Celia Fiennes was a remarkable, indeed a unique, travel-writer about her own country. Travelling in the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth century, and writing the account that has come down to us in the latter, she is an immediate (independent instead of employed) predecessor of Daniel Defoe in his role as national surveyor. She … Read more